March 2007 Volume 14 Number 3

Minimum Wage and Common Sense

March 01, 2007

What are we to make of the case for increasing the minimum wage? It is important to begin with a few basic moral distinctions. Read More >

Suffer the Little Children

March 01, 2007

In his effort to expand non-parental child care, Gov. Henry is citing the available research on the subject quite selectively. By promoting surrogate parenting for three-year-olds while disregarding the research exposing its risks, Henry and his allies are doing the children no favors. Oklahoma's three-year-olds may be too young to debate public policy. But perhaps m... Read More >

Limiting Government, Advancing Freedom

March 01, 2007

Any read through history demonstrates how essential limited government is to preserving freedom and individual liberty. What life experience shows us is that limited government is equally important in both making your economy flourish and in enabling citizens to get the most for their investment in government. Let me be clear up front that in the long run the... Read More >

Ya Got Trouble Right Here in Oklahoma City!

March 01, 2007

Oklahoma's crack team of government educators, the folks who spend billions of dollars a year to achieve heretofore unknown levels of semiliteracy and illiteracy among otherwise normal children, periodically take time out from their educational misfeasance to offer ominous warnings that we've got trouble - terrible, terrible trouble - lurking in homeschooling homes all acr... Read More >

Oklahoma Democrats Love Homeschoolers

March 01, 2007

Oklahoma law is considered by national home education experts to be one of the best in the nation. According to the Home School Legal Defense Association, "Oklahoma is the only state with a constitutional provision guaranteeing the right to home school." According to Article 13, Section 4 of the Oklahoma Constitution, "the Legislature shall provide for the co... Read More >

A Pension Deficit Disorder

March 01, 2007

The state now has more than $10 billion in unfunded liabilities in its pension plans. Read More >

Important Things to Remember

March 01, 2007

In about 170 words and six photographs, I am tasked with the responsibility of providing Perspective readers with a view of the ongoing activities at OCPA each month. It means capturing succinctly the essence of what happens here. That process is never easy because there is always more to report on than space permits. The important things to remember are: (1... Read More >

Quote/Unquote

March 01, 2007

?To call someone ?judgmental? is to accuse him of disapproving of something. But the word itself expresses disapproval. Methinks this calls for explanation.? Joe Sobran ?The kind of things homeschoolers are doing may be the saving grace of our nation.? Civil rights activist Martin Luther King III ?Maybe we should subcontract all of public education t... Read More >

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